LittleTale
Beyond the familiar
Jack and the Beanstalk
Your character trades the last of the family’s savings for five odd beans, and wakes to find a green tower growing through the clouds — with something very large living at the top.
- 12 illustrated pages
- Read online
- Keep the PDF
- Illustrated in a bright cartoon style
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In this retelling, your character trades the family’s last savings for five odd beans. By morning, a green tower reaches from home into the clouds, turning a disastrous purchase into somewhere to climb. Up among the leaves, the ground disappears from view. At the top, the discovery of an enormous inhabitant changes the problem: getting up here is only the beginning of the risk.
For you if impossible climbs suit an afternoon of familiar magic.
What is inside this book?
LittleTale’s twelve-page retelling moves from five beans bought with the last savings to a climb through the clouds and an enormous presence above. You get one or two short sentences per page. Bright, boldly outlined illustrations emphasize the contrast in scale between the climber, the green tower, and what waits at its top.
Who is this one for?
Pick this if you want familiar fairy-tale magic centered on an impossible climb. It fits someone you know who enjoys towering places, risky curiosity, and discoveries that make an earlier mistake look different. Choose it for an afternoon when a recognizable tale and a sense of height sound inviting.
Jack and the Beanstalk is a personalized illustrated storybook of twelve pages retelling a climb from five beans into the clouds.
More like this
Little Red Riding HoodA wolf with far too many questions about that basket.
The Little MermaidA secret collection of things that fell from above.
Blade of Falling PetalsThe mountain school takes one student a year.How is this one different from the others?
All four books are the same price, the same twelve illustrated pages, read online and downloaded as a PDF. What differs is the situation, the feeling, and the style it is drawn in.
| Story | The situation | Mood | Illustration | Choose this if you like |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack and the Beanstalk — this one | A beanstalk climb toward something enormous | daring, awestruck | Bright cartoon | impossible heights and something enormous waiting above the clouds |
| Little Red Riding Hood | A woodland delivery interrupted by a wolf | familiar, suspenseful | Bright cartoon | fairy tales with suspicious questions and danger behind friendly manners |
| The Little Mermaid | An underwater collector’s stormy visit to the surface | wistful, restless | Watercolor | collected objects stirring curiosity about the world they came from |
| Blade of Falling Petals | A school entrance test already underway unannounced | reflective, tentative | Comic | quiet tests whose rules emerge through attention to small gestures |
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